“Your beliefs become your thoughts Your thoughts become your wordsYour words become your actionsYour actions become your habitsYour habits become your characterYour character becomes your destiny” ~mohandas ghandi There is an energy that is spoiling my peace. It crackles and shifts the silence within me. And deep down and all through everything I know – I know this […]
vulnerability
A New Way to Love
“The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky, Are also on the faces of people going by. I see friends shaking hands, sayin’, “How do you do?” They’re really saying, ” I love you” ~from Lyrics “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong I am IN love. Not like “what is his name?” kind […]
Happy Valentine’s Day!
I do not fit snuggly into a world built on principles of clock time and corporeal senses alone. I may appear eccentric if I write about things like “equanimity” and “straddling eternity.” But it is in the effemera I feel most hardy. My strength seems to build upon itself in the light of my spirit. […]
Clarity: A Master Class
“What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although one distinguishes spiritual from physical nature, the ultimate unification of the two is the consequence of the struggle for internal, external and eternal – peace.” ~t.f. hodge Clarity really messes up everything I […]
The Divine in Scotland
the divine in the palm of our hands “I am where I need to be. Everything around me includes and hides the sacred.” ~ Mary Mrozowski This includes haggis. What is divine that is in front of you? Tag You’re It!
Fallen
Fallen I am wounded I am weak I am not alone. Scooped up Made warm and welcome Earth dug deep with candles lit Your love nourishes me. Gracious nestling In your family’s home, your heart, your lives, your land. Just now this way I am safe I can crow I am made stronger in your […]
Pumpkin Bread
He loved Pumpkin Bread. He loved a lot of specific things. He knew what he liked because after much living and much thinking about living he made a point to extract the wheat from the chaff. He knew by practical experimentation which things worked best and he held tight to those things. So I always […]
Paying Attention
A Centipede was happy quite until a frog in jest said, “Pray which leg comes after which?” This raised his doubts to such a pitch, He lay bewildered in a ditch Considering how to run. ~ Author Unknown Taking yet another e-course with Thomas Moore, author of “Care of the Soul”, we are studying The Holy Fool: […]
Change
“The birds are molting. If only man could molt also – his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.” ~ james allen This is WCHG radio sweeping you forward to a brighter day! Give a listen. Click on the names below – unless you don’t want to feel empowered? Change […]
Full Engagement
Peacocks of Chatham County, 21″ x 27″ Watercolor There is a way to manufacture a life so it sits up straight and eats it’s vegetables, but I want more. There is a way to place yourself on a positive path by counting your blessings and recognizing the good things that are right in front of your nose, […]
Joyful Creativity
Maui – Polynesian Trickster God Excerpts from IT’S BETTER TO BE A TRICKSTER THAN A MARTYR by Elizabeth Gilbert “There is another way to be creative that does not make a fetish out of suffering. There is an older way, a richer way, a more generative way — the way human beings had been […]
Manifesting: the process revealed
“We need not always be effective, but only transparent and vulnerable. Then we are instruments, no matter what we do.” ~ richard rohr I have been gandering at this transition from grieving to gratitud-ing I am making. This is what I have come up with so far. With no anecdote here that will ground this […]
